Monday, September 16, 2013

How Can A Business Benefit From Electrical Failure Analysis?

By Paul Drake


As you might (or might not ) be aware of, electrical failure analysis has been helping many companies in several industries for quite some time. In particular, the manufacturing as well as the retailer sectors - of various products - are the ones considered to be benefiting the most of the process.

What is electrical failure analysis, by the way?

In a capsulized definition, EFA, is a process that is aimed at gathering and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure of a particular product - e.g. electronic device failure. This methodology is imperative in many branches of manufacturing as this helps: (1) for the development of new products with better quality and (2) the refinement of the existing ones. The process is carried out by gathering the failed components of a product with defects and send them to a laboratory for analysis and evaluation with the help of proven effective methods.

Two most common method employed in electrical failure analysis

Microscopy - a method that utilizes microscopes to examine samples with defects that cannot be seen though naked eye alone.

Spectroscopy - a method used to study the interaction between matter and radiated energy; this has something to do with dispersion of an object's light into its component colors. This is being used in several applications, including examining object contamination, dilapidation, etc.

Other methodologies employed in electrical failure analysis

Curve-tracing - this is used to test electrical paths of a device or package to be checked; a systematic way of current-voltage characteristics analysis done by tracing electrical paths with the help of a tool called curve tracer.

Emission microscopy - highly regarded as one of the most efficient and effective optical analysis techniques; a procedure that is used to detect and localize IC failures with the help of a sensitive camera to view and capture optical emission.

Circuit Edit FIB - using focused ion beams to remove and deposit materials with high precision - capabilities that can be used to cut and connect circuitry within a device.

So, how can a business benefit from electrical failure analysis?

Many businesses can benefit from this strategy such as those, as I have said, in the manufacturing sectors and other industrial facilities and other institutions that play a vital role in our society, including commercial and residential power distribution companies, electro-mechanical machinery companies, control center providers, etc.

The determination of any failures within the facilities mentioned above is very essential for the improvement of their current systems or for the adaptation of new methodologies -- to produce a more improved products -- which are a key to achieving the common goal of all businesses -- customer satisfaction and continued business growth.

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